Writer, jazz musician, poet and playwright Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1963 and lives in Kirriemuir with his partner and children. He came to the fore with his impressive first collection Nil Nil (1993), which received the Forward Poetry Prize. God's Gift to Women (1997), his follow-up, won the T S Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His latest collection Landing Light (2003) picked up both the T S Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. Poetry editor at the publisher Picador, Paterson has also made adaptations of the work of Spanish poet Antonio Machado and edited 101 Sonnets: From Shakespeare to Heaney (1999) and, with Jo Shapcott, Last Words: New Poetry for the New Century (1999). He has also edited, with Clare Brown, the anthology Don't Ask Me What I Mean: Modern Poets in Their Own Words (2003), which was published to mark the 50th anniversary of the Poetry Book Society.